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Twitter: The Concision Imperialist Movement
Twitter is a thing you might have heard about. You probably joined it or know someone who has. There’s a good chance you gave it up as irrelevant to your life, and then maybe you came back to it for a time and gave it a real go. Like the vcr to the television, the flash bulb to the photograph, the camera to your cell phone— twitter is a parcel of innovation on top of the significant transformation in the way human beings communicate. Still, you might consider this bit of technology meaningless to your daily practice. Let’s draw some lines. Let’s sketch it out.
Reasons to avoid Twitter:
Frenetic energy of links and fury signifying nothing.
The word “tweet” will enter your lexicon—function occasionally as a verb and occasionally as a noun, alienate grammarians, annoy conversationalists and discourage realtime human beings from speaking to you.
Weak ties won’t make you any less lonely
Good reasons to use twitter:
The future is here, it’s all around, it’s group texting you right now
Gain access to another dimension where people are quite possibly interested in your thoughts
Cultivate a personalized network of individuals who will periodically enrich your life with very low commitment
An easy way to start
An easy way to resist
See Also: Malcolm Gladwell doesn’t give a tweetTwitter founders think Gladwell is a noble fool
- Learn to write
- Read newspapers and use social media
- Journalists are human
- Old media matters… a lot
- Social media is a conversation
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“as artists you are responsible for what you put into the world, but not responsible for explaining it”
“paint what you want, then face the consequences”
”Judith Schaecter in Art and Culture II class on ugliness (via pipicheech)
how do i find people on this thing? is it only by e-mail address that i can find my friends? what if i know their usernames, or tmblr urls?
pipicheech
There’s a few ways to find your friends on the platform. I’d also suggest that tumblr is more excellent for finding people you don’t know yet but have similar interests. Try that out too.
Friends You Know:
If you know a tumblr’s username, try it out as the url. (i.e. username.tumblr.com). If you find it go ahead and hit the “follow” button on the top right.
If not, give it a shot looking for them in the tumblr search bar: 
Or, give them an old google search (friend’s name + tumblr) and see if you’re in luck.
Lastly, if all of these stalkery efforts have failed and you must actually talk to them, ask them to email you a link to their blog and make sure to hit the “Follow” button on the top right of the browser window.
If this doesn’t work then they aren’t much of a friend, now are they?
New Friends
1. Check out the directory for other tumblrs focused on in the arts.
2. Search tumblr for key words you find interesting such as:
Give it a whirl and if you like what you see from a fellow blogger remember to follow them. If you later decide that they are terribly uninteresting you can always unfollow. It’s like dating thousands of people at once. Exactly like that, actually.
An NYAA Student asked: "So - you can only insert images if they live on the web? You can't upload from your computer? How does moderation work?"
nic-rad
1. You can upload images recklessly and quite fast: From the dashboard pick the photo icon and it will be impossible to miss the upload box.
Or if you’ve the hit “text” icon then look for the smaller gray link on the top right of the dialogue box that reads “upload a picture”
2. Moderation— Myself, Nic Rad, will be moderating the blog— Moderation works like this- I’ll take what you give me and if I think it needs some context or reformatting I’ll do that. As folks contribute and have sites up and running I’ll start a blog roll on the left and you’ll be able to get all the glory and credit that comes with blogging. (Tons!)
In some cases I may not post things that are submitted because I’m having a bad day or because I’m not sure this is the right context. But you’d have to be trying pretty hard to get me to reject your content. I think everything is interesting and frankly I encourage you to challenge my moderation. Perhaps I will start a blog des refuse. It’s big internet. Everyone’s a winner.
Mark Mennin: Messerschmidt
Academy professor Mark Mennin discusses the work of Francis Xaiver Messerschmidt historically and contemporaneously.
He considers the 18th century artist as a minimalist, a performance artist, a body artist, and a few others. Holy molars.
